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Mission Mexico has the largest consular operation in the world, with over one million legal border crossings daily, one million American citizens resident in Mexico and over twelve million American citizens visiting Mexico for business or tourism each year.

U.S. Citizen Consular Services
About 20,000 American citizens came to the Embassy or one of its nine consulates and fourteen consular agencies in Mexico for assistance during the past year. Services provided include passport issuance, reports of birth and death, notarizations, and others. The Embassy also provides assistance in case of natural disasters, and in the past few years has responded to numerous hurricanes and tropical storms. For example, when Hurricane Wilma hit the Yucatan Peninsula in 2005, Consular Officers assisted over 35,000 American citizens affected by the hurricane.

Visa Services to the Mexican Public
In the fiscal year ending September 2007, Mission Mexico processed applications for 1,300,000 non-immigrant visas (visitor, student, temporary work, and other categories) and 86,000 immigrant visas.

 

Non-Immigrant Visa Applications

 

— Visas/Passports—

• On average, consular officers in Embassy Mexico City alone interviewed over 2,000 applicants per day in FY2007.

• The Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez processes all immigrant visas in Mexico. In 2008 with a new building, will be the largest consulate in the world with 109 interview windows.

• The majority of H2 (temporary worker) visas processed by the State Dept. worldwide are issued in Mexico – about 140,000 each year.

• The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) has increased passport workload by an average of 54% across Mexico.

• Mission Mexico expects 5.6 million visas renewals in 2008-2011.

 

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